Clouded Judgement

JUNE 6, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 144

Cloud Technical Review Software Review Technical Advisors 144

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 21, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. With more recent cloud software companies, there was a lot of organic expansion - ie expanding into new markets and capabilities through internal product development. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now M&A is Back!

Cloud 188

Cloud Subscription Payment Features Pricing 188

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 27, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 157

Cloud Sales Hiring Scale Investment 157

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 13, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. There’s a real fear among incumbents that they’ll get reduced to dumb databases as the software stack shifts from cloud apps to agents. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

Cloud 144

Cloud Data AI Investment 144

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 157

Cloud AI Headcount Pricing 157

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 144

Cloud Software Subscription Payment Features 144

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions.

Benchmarks 299

Benchmarks Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 299

Clouded Judgement

MAY 16, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Trends 144

Trends Cloud Subscription Payment Features 144

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 28, 2025

It doesn’t just recognize patterns or repeat information “learned” during training —it solves problems, and follows chains of thought to arrive at conclusions. R1 is DeepSeek’s reasoning model. So, what is a reasoning model? A reasoning model is a model designed to simulate logical thinking - ie reasoning.

Cloud 190

Cloud Scale AI Scaling 190

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 157

Cloud Forecasting Subscription Payment Features 157

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2025

Revenue figures sourced from Reuters, The Information, and PYMNTS reporting. For B2B founders, the lesson is clear: the companies that combine the best of traditional B2B discipline with AI-native growth strategies will define the next decade of software. This analysis is based on public revenue reports and industry research.

B2B 249

B2B Scale Outsourced Development AI 249

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The information provided is believed to be from reliable sources but no liability is accepted for any inaccuracies. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 167

Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2025

Automotive: Proactive Lead Generation Proactively call leads to collect key information—preferred model, timing, and location—and match them with nearby dealerships for test drives. Business Impact: Reduce support costs by 60% while improving customer satisfaction scores. Business Impact: Double conversion rates from leads to test drives.

Payment Solutions 267

Payment Solutions Scale AI Payment Services 267

Clouded Judgement

JULY 18, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The APM space was much larger, more established, and cloud infrastructure monitoring was more niche (where Datadog played). It was ~4 years after AWS was launched and the public cloud started to take off. Follow along to stay up to date!

Cloud 144

Cloud AWS ChatGPT AI 144

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2025

The Problem: Rubrik’s platform handles data across data centers, cloud VMs, databases, object storage, and SaaS applications. Track 1: AI-Enhanced Product Experience Rubrik’s first AI initiative focuses on making their complex platform more accessible through “Ruby”—an AI companion for their SaaS platform.

Cybersecurity 256

Cybersecurity AI Scale CTO Hire 256

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The WatsonX Platform Deep Dive What’s Actually Different Here WatsonX isn’t just another AI platform. cost savings, 35% time savings The Partner Ecosystem Play IBM isn’t going it alone. cost savings, 35% time savings The Partner Ecosystem Play IBM isn’t going it alone.

AI 185

AI Scale SaaS Government 185

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

With 200+ top AI demos and sessions from leaders like Perplexity, Google Cloud, GitHub, Rubrik and more, youll get the most comprehensive look at how AI is reshaping B2B. It’s one of the best ways to informally meet VCs! With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! 100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it!

VP of Engineering 204

VP of Engineering CTO Coach VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Scale 204

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! VIP Networking app for B2B founders and execs attending (no service providers, sorry!) And the VCs that want to fund them!

Sales Recruiting 195

Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring 195

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2025

The market you choose determines everything downstream: What product you build Who you need to hire How you go to market What systems you need to create Look at Snowflake’s decision to focus exclusively on cloud data warehousing rather than traditional on-premise solutions. Remember: you’re not creating demand from scratch.

Scale 185

Scale Systems Review Scaling Leadership 185

Clouded Judgement

JULY 2, 2025

The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions.

Benchmarks 196

Benchmarks Data Software Review AI 196

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2025

Their Service Cloud helps businesses “deflect 30% of cases” out of the box. Salesforce reports that companies using Agentforce achieve a “double digit percentage increase in customer satisfaction and deflection rates” with a 50% increase in case resolution.

AI 268

AI Sales Generative AI Pricing 268

Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

Key takeaways CSPM identifies and fixes cloud misconfigurations to maintain compliance and reduce security risks. Key capabilities of CSPM include multi-cloud integration, policy enforcement, threat detection, compliance mapping, and contextualized risk analysis. What is cloud security posture management (CSPM)?

Cloud 52

Cloud Underperforming Technical Team Management compliance 52

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘24 We now have the quarterly reports from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They each have some of the largest cloud businesses in the world in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud respectively.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. Why HG Insights? Theyve been writing market reports for years as the pioneer of tech adoption and market insights. Thinking about AI for your sales team but unsure where to start?

Scale 101

Scale Engineering Acquisition Scaling 101

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

TL;DR SaaS platforms are cloud-based software solutions that offer ready-to-use tools over the internet, enabling businesses to scale operations, improve efficiency, and integrate with other applications without managing infrastructure. Contact sales What is a SaaS Platform?

Payment Services 88

Payment Services DevOps as a Service SaaS Payments Payments 88

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On the other hand, modern cloud-based billing systems are easy on the pocket, and more efficient. The data includes all of your customer information, financial records and billing history. It helps you in identifying issues like mismatched fields, information discrepancies or missing data.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cutting-edge approach in AI that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time information retrieval to produce more accurate and context-aware outputs. Think of a standard LLM as a very smart student who has learned a lot of general information. This is known as AI hallucination.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Scale 52

Blulogix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In industries like cloud computing, telecommunications, and IT services, consumption billing has gained significant traction because it aligns the cost directly with service usage. This approach allows customers to pay only for what they use, making it an attractive option for those who want more control over their costs.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Scale Telecommunications Forecasting 59

BetterCloud

JANUARY 15, 2025

When configurations often change, like in cloud productivity suites, risks grow. This is particularly true if a SaaS app involves sensitive data, like PII or health information. An incorrect setting, like excessive privileges to an end user, can expose vulnerabilities, leading to unauthorized access and data loss.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 52

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For SaaS companies, accounting becomes one of the most crucial processes to understand their financial and overall business health, and then make informed decisions about future steps. They provide valuable data to monitor business performance, pinpoint key areas to improve your efficiency and strategies, and make more informed decisions.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Features 52

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Salesforce: A Pioneer in Cloud CRM Salesforce, founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, was a trailblazer in bringing CRM to the cloud. Through numerous acquisitions (ExactTarget, Tableau, Slack, and more), Salesforce built an expansive ecosystem of cloud services. Basic email integration available in Sales Cloud.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Marketplace as a Service 52

Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Founded in 2021, Lottie has since expanded to include Found by Lottie, a cloud-based software for care providers, and Seniorcare by Lottie, which supports employers in delivering top-tier eldercare benefits. GET ISO 27001 COMPLIANT 90% FASTER 6.

Startup 59

Startup Scale Cybersecurity AI Search 59

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Naturally, it includes any cloud services, software, and even hardware. It could also have overly broad OAuth permissions giving unfettered access to sensitive corporate information. At its most basic, shadow IT occurs when anyone in your organization uses IT-related resources that has neither IT or security involvement or knowledge.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence compliance Systems Review Technical Review 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Dropbox also implemented a successful referral program to reward both the referrer and the new user with additional cloud storage space. Use progress bars and instant feedback to keep employees informed about their achievements. The referrer gets the discount on their next purchase, while the referee enjoys it on their first order.

Onboarding 102

Onboarding Engagement Software Review Retention 102

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

This surging investment spans AI chips, cloud platforms, and smart software. It covers the infrastructure (GPUs, cloud platforms, edge devices), software frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ML libraries), data pipelines , model development , and end-user applications or APIs. Governments and companies now invest billions: the U.S.

AI 69

AI Scale Technical Review Software Review 69

Frontegg

JUNE 9, 2025

Authentication as a Service (AaaS) is a cloud-based solution that provides authentication functions for users, applications, and devices. By leveraging cloud technologies, AaaS offers scalability and reliability, ensuring that authentication services can handle spikes in demand, such as during a mass login event or a new application rollout.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Technical Review Outsourced Development Cybersecurity 52